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Supplementary Information and Figures for Smith Et Al SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION AND FIGURES FOR SMITH ET AL. 2008 “A Megaraptor-like theropod (Dinosauria: Tetanurae) in Australia; support for faunal exchange across eastern and western Gondwana in the mid-Cretaceous”. S1. INSTITUTIONAL ABBREVIATIONS BMNH, British Museum of Natural History, London, UK; FMNH, The Field Museum of Natural History; MB, Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany; MCF-PVPH, Museo Carmen Funes, Paleontología Vertebrados, Plaza Huincul, Argentina; MNN, Musée National du Niger, Niamey, Niger; MUCPv, Museo de la Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina; NMV, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; PVL, Fundacíon Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina; UCMP, University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, USA; UCRC, University of Chicago Research Collection, Chicago, USA; UNPSJB- PV, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina; YPM, Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, USA. 2 Figure S2. Location of Dinosaur Cove, and outcrop of the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous Otway Group (dark shaded area) in southeastern Australia. 3 Figure S3. Left theropod ulnae in proximal aspect. (a) Liliensternus liliensterni, MB R. 2175); (b) Poekilopleuron bucklandii, YPM 4839, cast of holotype destroyed during World War II; (c) Allosaurus fragilis, YPM 4944; (d) Suchomimus tenerensis, MNN GAD 500; (e), cf. Megaraptor, NMV P186076; (f) Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, MCF-PVPH 79, right ulna reversed for comparison; (g) Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, MUCPv 341, right ulna reversed for comparison. Anatomical abbreviations: proc ol, olecranon process, tub lat, lateral tuberosity. Specimens shown are not to scale. 4 Figure S4. Right theropod ulnae in lateral aspect. (a) Suchomimus tenerensis, MNN GAD 500; (b) Allosaurus fragilis, YPM 4944, left ulna reversed for comparison; (c) Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, MUCPv 341; (d), cf. Megaraptor, NMV P186076, left ulna reversed for comparison; (e) Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, MCF-PVPH 79; (f) Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, interpretive drawing of MCF-PVPH 79. Anatomical abbreviations: cr caud, caudal crest; cr lat, lateral crest; fac art hu, humeral articular facet; fac art rad dist, distal radial articular surface; proc corn, coronoid process; proc ol, olecranon process, tub lat, lateral tuberosity. Scale bars equal 50 mm. 5 Figure S5. Left theropod ulnae in distal aspect. (a) Liliensternus liliensterni, MB R. 2175; (b), Piatnitzkysaurus floresi, PVL 4073; (c) Poekilopleuron bucklandii, YPM 4839, cast of holotype destroyed during World War II; (d) Suchomimus tenerensis, MNN GAD 500, right ulna reversed for comparison; (e) Allosaurus fragilis, YPM 4944; (f) cf. Megaraptor, NMV P186076; (g) Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, MUCPv 341; (h) Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, MCF-PVPH 79, right ulna reversed for comparison. Cranial is to the top of the page, medial is to the left. Anatomical abbreviations: med, medial expansion of distal ulna. Specimens shown are not to scale. 6 S6. EMENDED SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY (a) Systematic Palaeontology Dinosauria (Owen 1842) Theropoda (Marsh 1881) Tetanurae (Gauthier 1986) Megaraptor (Novas 1998) (b) Type Species and Holotype Megaraptor namunhuaiquii Novas 1998, MCF-PVPH 79, right ulna, left manual phalanx I-1, ungual phalanx of manual digit I, distal half of right metatarsal III (Novas 1998). (c) Referred Material Megaraptor namunhuaiquii–MUCPv 341, a fragmentary postcranial skeleton (Calvo et al. 2004). Megaraptor namunhuaiquii–MUCPv 412, the distal portion of a right ulna (Porfiri et al. 2007). Megaraptor namunhuaiquii–MUCPv 413, the proximal portion of a right manual phalanx I-1 (Porfiri et al. 2007). Megaraptor sp.– UNPSJB-PV 944, a fragmentary postcranial skeleton (Lamanna 2004). Megaraptor sp.–UNPSJB-PV 958, a fragmentary postcranial skeleton (Lamanna 2004). Cf. Megaraptor–NMV P186076, an isolated left ulna (this paper). (d) Locality and Horizon MCF-PVPH 79–Sierra del Portezuelo, Neuquén Province, Argentina, Portezuelo Formation (Late Turonian–Early Coniacian), of the Nequén Group (Albian–Campanian). MUCPv 341, 412, 413–Los Barreales lake, Neuquén Province, Argentina, Portezuelo Formation (fate Turonian–early Coniacian), of the Nequén Group (Albian–Campanian). UNPSJB-PV 944, 958–Estancia Viento Fuerte, south central Chubut Province, Argentina, Upper section of the Lower Member of the Bajo 7 Barreal Formation (middle Cenomanian–Turonian) (Lamanna 2004). NMV P186076– First Cross Tunnel at the ‘Slippery Rock’ site (see Rich & Vickers-Rich 2000: figure 44), Dinosaur Cove, near Cape Otway, Victoria, Australia (38º 46’ 53+1” S, 143º 24’ 14+1” E, World Geodetic Standard 1984; figure S2), Eumeralla Formation (late Aptian–early Albian; Wagstaff & McEwen-Mason 1989), of the Otway Group of Victoria (Rich & Vickers-Rich 2003). (e) Diagnosis Megaraptor namunhuaiquii Novas 1998 can be diagnosed by the following autapomorphies: 1) the presence of a mediolaterally compressed, proximocaudally expanded, blade-like olecranon process on the proximal ulna that extends distally as a caudal olecranon crest; 2) the presence of a hypertrophied lateral tuberosity that extends distally as a blade-like crest; 3) a metacarpal II with a transversely expanded and fan-shaped ventral surface at its proximal end; 4) a manual phalanx I-1 which is sub-quandrangular in proximal aspect, with the dorsal border transversely wider than ventral border; 5) a metatarsal III with a deep and wide extensor ligament pit; and 6) a metatarsal IV with a distal extremity that is transversely narrower than its shaft. Characters 1 and 2 may have a broader distribution, depending upon the exact phylogenetic affinities of NMV P186076. 8 S6. List of characters, character-states, and codings used in phylogenetic analysis. Original citations and/or modifications are provided in parantheses. The abbreviation ‘TwiG’ is used to denote characters derived or modified from the Theropod Working Group Matrix. Characters 348–353 represent new additions to the character list utilized in Smith et al. (2007). 1. Orbit round in lateral or dorsolateral view (0); or dorsoventrally elongate (1) (TWiG). 2. Skull length relative to femur length: > 0.5 (0); < 0.5 (1) (Benton et al., 2000). 3. Tooth row: extends posteriorly to approximately half the length of the orbit (0); ends at the anterior rim of the orbit (1); completely antorbital, tooth row ends anterior to the vertical strut of the lacrimal (2) (Gauthier, 1986). 4. Infratemporal fenestra: smaller than or subequal in size to orbit (0); strongly enlarged, more than 1.5 times the size of the orbit (1) (Bonaparte, 1991). 5. Height:length ratio of premaxilla below external naris: 0.5-1.25 (0), < 0.5 (1), or > 1.25 (2) (modified from Carrano et al.,2002 and Rauhut, 2003) 6. Premaxillary body in front of external nares: shorter than body below the nares and angle between anterior margin and alveolar margin more than 75 degrees (0); longer than body below the nares and angle less than 70 degrees (1) (Rauhut, 2003). 7. Ventral process at the posterior end of premaxillary body: absent (0); present (1) (Rauhut, 2003). 8. Number of premaxillary teeth: three (0); four (1); five (2); more than five (3); premaxillary teeth absent (4) (Rauhut, 2003). 9. Premaxillary tooth row ends: ventral (0); anterior (1) to naris (Sereno, 1999). 10. Subnarial process of the premaxilla: wide; plate-like, broadly contacting the nasals and excluding the maxilla from the external nares (0); strongly reduced in width, but still contacting the nasals (1); strongly reduced process does not contact the nasals, and the maxilla forms part of the posteroventral border of the external nares (2) (modified from Gauthier, 1986; Rauhut, 2003). 11. Maxillary/palatal process of premaxilla: large flange (0); blunt triangle (1) (Sampson et al., 1998). 12. Foramen on the medial side of the premaxillary body, below the narial margin: absent (0); present (1) (modified from Sereno et al., 2004; Yates, 2005). 9 13. Slot-shaped foramen on the lateral face of the premaxilla, located at the base of the nasal process: absent (0); present (1) (Yates, 2005). 14. Length of the nasal process of the premaxilla: posterior tip level with the posterior tip of the posterolateral premaxillary process (0); posterior tip extends posterior to the posterior tip of the posterolateral premaxillary process (1) (Yates, 2005). 15. Premaxillary posterodorsal process contributes to a blade-like nasal crest: no (0); yes (1). 16. Premaxilla-nasal suture on internarial bar: V-shaped (0); W-shaped (1) (Sereno et al., 2004). 17. Serrations on premaxillary teeth: present (0); absent (1) (Rauhut, 2003). 18. Premaxillary teeth cross-sections: elliptical (0); subcircular (1); D-shaped in cross-section (modified from Carrano et al., 2002; TWiG; Tykoski & Rowe, 2004; Yates, 2005). 19. Labiolingual symmetery of premaxillary teeth: symmetrical (0); asymmetrical (1); (Bakker et al., 1988). 20. Rostroventral narial fossa: absent or shallow (0); expanded, well-developed fossa on the premaxilla in the rostroventral corner of the naris (1) (modified from Sereno, 1999; Langer & Benton, 2006). 21. Constriction between articulated premaxillae and maxillae: absent (0); present (1). (Rauhut, 2003). 22. Premaxilla and maxilla in contact at alveolar magins (0), or alveolar margins do not contact (1) (Tykoski, 2005). 23. Orientation of the maxillae towards each other in dorsal view: acutely angled (0); subparallel (1) (Harris, 1998). 24. Ascending process of the maxilla: confluent with anterior rim of maxillary body and gently sloping
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